Odd Sentence Out - Freedom Over Death
CAT 2025 Slot 1 · Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension · Medium · VARC
This is a medium Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension question from the CAT 2025 Slot 1 paper. It tests VARC. The full answer key and a step-by-step explanation are below — try it yourself first, then reveal the solution.
Five jumbled sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5), related to a topic, are given below. Four of them can be put together to form a coherent paragraph. Identify the odd sentence out and key in the number of that sentence as your answer.
- Developments both technological and sociocultural have afforded us far greater freedom over death than we had in the past, and while we are still adapting ourselves to that freedom, we now appreciate the moral importance of this freedom.
- But I believe that a type of freedom we can call freedom over death - that is, a freedom in which we shape the timing and circumstances of how we die - should be central to this conversation.
- Legalising assisted dying is but a further step in realising this freedom over death.
- Many people endorse, through their opinions or their choices, our freedom over death, encompassing a right to medical assistance in hastening our deaths.
- Freedom is a notoriously complex and contested philosophical notion, and I won't pretend to settle any of the big controversies it raises.
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Explanation
All five sentences revolve around a philosophical discussion of freedom over death: what it means, why it matters, and how it shapes debates like assisted dying.
Sentences 5, 1, 2, and 3 follow a clear progression. Sentence 5 opens the discussion by noting that freedom is philosophically complex. Sentence 1 focuses on a specific kind of freedom, freedom over death, in a historical/moral context. Sentence 2 builds on this by arguing that this freedom should be central to the conversation. Sentence 3 presents legalised assisted dying as a step in realizing it.
Sentence 4 interrupts this flow by making a descriptive claim about public opinion, which is off-topic relative to the author's argument. Thus, 4 is the odd sentence out.
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